Research Team
Email: firstname.lastname@rbnz.govt.nz

Biography:

Manu joined the Bank in November 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University. Manu was an intern at the International Monetary Fund in 2005 and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2004.

Current research interests:

• Macro-, Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics
• Endogenous Pricing and Output-Inflation Trade-Off
• Financial Shocks and Price Distortions
• Oil Prices and Output

Selected publications:

• De Veirman, E. (2009): ‘What Makes the Output-Inflation Trade-Off Change? The Absence of Accelerating Deflation in Japan’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41 (6), 1117-1140.

• De Veirman, E. and Andrew Levin (2009): ‘Measuring Changes in Firm-Level Volatility: An Application to Japan’, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2009/20.

• De Veirman, E. and Andrew Levin (2009): ‘Firm-Level Volatility in the United States, and its Relation with the Frequency of Price Adjustment’, submitted to Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper series.

• De Veirman, E. and Felipe Labbé (2009): ‘Estimating the Effects of Permanent Oil Price Shocks Consistent with Optimal Factor Allocation’, forthcoming, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper.

• De Veirman, E. and Ashley Dunstan (2008): ‘How do Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth and Consumption Interact? Evidence from New Zealand’, Reserve Bank of New Zealand Discussion Paper 2008/05. (This paper changed substantially since its publication. Among others, the new version separately analyzes the relation between wealth and household borrowing. Please contact me for the most recent version. Revise and resubmit, the B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics.)